UCLA's first team All-American center, Kevin Love has declared himself eligible for the NBA Draft. The freshman led the Bruins to the Final Four for a third consecutive year while averaging 17.5 PPG and 10.6 RPG. Love brought back memories when UCLA use to have dominant centers like Kareem Abdul-Jabar and Bill Walton in the John Wooden days. Love is projected to a top ten draft pick when June 26 rolls around. Love's teammate Russell Westbrook has also declared for the NBA Draft. Westbrook averaged 12.7 PPG, 4.3 APG and 3.9 RPG for the Bruins.I am sad to see another extremely talented freshman leave early for the NBA. This draft should be one of the most freshmen filled drafts ever and easily has the most talented freshmen class. There haven't been any household name freshmen who have decided to return to school yet, which will leave us with a less than impressive sophomore group for next season. I'm just hoping that next years freshmen can be half as good as this years. The list of players that college basketball is losing keeps growing and growing everyday. I wish the best of luck to Love, one of the smartest and most fun to watch players we had this season.
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this is going to be a deep draft, do u think love will replicate his success in the NBA?
Yeah I do think Love will have success in then pros but I think he will have to play power forward opposed to center. He is only 6-10 which is kind of short to be a really dominant center but perfect height to be a great power forward. With his smarts and athletic ability, Love should be able to fit in anywhere. If he is matched up with a good center, that them is going to have a very deadly front court. I look to see Love drafted within the first 10 picks.
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